Saturday, November 21, 2009
Have You Heard the News?
Rumor has it the news media is trying to get a copy of all the salaries in IPS so it can publish them. That doesn't bother IPS B.S. because we're all public employees so our salaries are public record, but you have to wonder what the reaction will be when people find out that Willie Giles makes $150,000 a year, Jane Kendrick makes $120,000 and Jane Ajabu makes $116,000?
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Why in the world would the media want to publish our salaries? Will they do that to the townships? As far as people like Giles, Kendrick, Ajabu, et al, go, will the public really care? Why would they? Why should they?
ReplyDeleteI believe that all of the head honchos salaries should be public knowlegde! The community needs to see how Dr. White and his cronies are being over paid for basically sitting on their ass and making decisions that are destroying student's performance and teacher morale. Expose all of them just like they did the CEO's on WALLSTREET...........maybe then the community can help us get rid of Dr. White and his crew. As far as my salary being public knowledge I really don't care.........the public can see first hand how poor teachers are!
ReplyDeleteWe're all public employees with our salaries paid by the taxpayers. Our salaries are not private; they're public.
ReplyDeleteTo the poster above...Shhh. Facts make the blogmaster's head hurt.
ReplyDeleteI hope they post the salary earned by Sarah Bogard as principal at Tech. All she does is worry about her plants while the school goes to hell. She doesn't come to work until 9:00 or 9:30 when the school day starts at 7:15. Is Eugene willing to let the tradition of Tech to protect this woman??
ReplyDeleteIn smaller Indiana communities, school administrators' salaries are published in their local newspapers on a regular basis.
ReplyDeleteI think the public in Indianapolis should get to see what they are paying taxes for.
Why should mid-and-low level IPS administrators be getting paid twice what a veteran, battle-scarred teacher of 20 years or more in IPS is getting paid? Do they work twice as hard? I don't think so!
I graduated 4rm Tech last year and when we practiced the graduation ceremony it was my first time seeing Sarah Bogard.. She don't do anything the teachers and Dean Kelly ran that school and Eugene white ran some of them off
ReplyDeleteAs a Public employee I don't mind thing like income being published.
ReplyDeleteThere are some questionable salaries in the district that IPS may clean up if the knowledge is out there.
I though, hope they do not single IPS out. I think most districts in Marion County the same can be said. I would hope they publish Washington's, Pike's, Decatur's,Perry's, Warren's, Franklin's, and the others as well.
The media in Indianapolis singles IPS out at every turn. On issues like these they should be equal. Except it would show the disparity in pay between IPS teachers and township teachers. Show the extra work and things we go through for less than others outside of IPS.
What is there point in getting pay? What is the angle? That is the real question.
Where have some of you people been? Up until about five years ago, when you went to the Indiana Dept. of Education web site and did a teacher license lookup, it listed where you worked and your salary. That was for all teachers in the entire state of Indiana!
ReplyDeleteI'm not so much concerned with the salaries paid to my fellow teachers as I am with the salaries paid to classified employees, such as those employeed at the Ed Center. Frankly, I believe that many Ed Center classified employees are in jobs with inflated pay grades because they're simply friends of Dr. White's or other high level district administrators. To wit, Dr. White's secretary earns more money than a 20-year teacher with an earned Master's Degree.
ReplyDeleteI doubt that there is another system in Marion County with the extreme top heavy administrative structure especially with people who have no qualification other than being a friends of Eugene White. No othe system has the nepotism that Eugene White and the school board practices. No other system in Marion County has a bobble head board that is afraid of the superintendent and won't question any of this moves....IPS needs to be spotlighted and looked at under a microscope. It would be really ugly.
ReplyDeleteYes, you can find teacher salaries but you can't find administrators' salaries on the internet.
ReplyDeleteThe Indianapolis Star has had a love affair with the current IPS administration and it shows in their cupcake coverage of the district - with their commentary usually directed towards berating teachers.
I agree with the writer here who says that IPS needs to be "looked under a microscope." The Star has done a good job recently with its investigation into lobbying in the Statehouse. Now, how about utilizing the same enthusiasm about looking into what goes on in that big IPS building not far from The Star's offices.
The news media in (newspaper, TV, radion) in Indianapolis are quick to jump all over a sensational story involving an IPS school/teacher/student/bus driver, etc., that they can cover in 20 minutes. How about some real in-depth probing of what goes on behind the scenes at the top of the IPS ladder? Salary wise and otherwise.
On a serious note, what exactly are Willie Giles' job responsibilities?
ReplyDeleteHe has no responsibilities.
ReplyDeleteWillie Giles has to take Sandra Towne out to lunch daily and cover up her mistakes that seem to happen daily. The Board gave Dr. White's duties to Giles, so that Dr. White's ("Rain Man") could bring in tons of money from different sources like: grants, gifts, in-kind gifts, and matching grant). IPS has yet to see one drop of rain and the only thing I have seen from Dr. White is the "Pimp Daddy" look, red shoes, my God a CEO would slam the door shut in his face.
ReplyDeleteI'm a Central Office employee. There is so much dirt on Eugene White, Willie Giles, Li-Yen Johnson, Jackie Clency, Jane Kendricks, and others within Central Office. It is embarrassing. Dr. White has not raised one cent. Giles in in love with Mrs. Towne, Li-Yen spends more time alone with Dr. White that they have to be screwing. Jackie Clency cost the district over $500K because she could not count the number of school days. Jane Kendrick and Prudence Bridgwaters stay in hot water for their misdeeds. The big rumor is that Kendricks is heading to HR because the middle schools and high schools have done poorly under her leadership. Prudence Bridgwaters is out because of her lies. She is having all of her surgeries done bacause she will be fired soon.
ReplyDeleteIf Jane Kendricks has done an unsatisfactory job with the middle and high schools, then why not be rid of her permanently? Simply recycling her into HR does nothing except perpetuate an already incestuous school corporation.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of wasting money, is Peggy Averitt still around?
ReplyDeleteOops....DR. Averitt.
Jane Kendrick must have some dirt on someone. There has to be a reason why she hangs on despite her total failure at every assignment that she has been given.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that a kudos is owed to Donna Walker, Director of English/Language Arts. She works her buns off, is always professional, and must be extremely frustrated with the obstacles she navigates in the Ed Center.
ReplyDeleteGreat posting!
ReplyDeleteSomeone at the Ed Center has to be carrying the load, and I'm pleased to read a compliment instead of a dart. In addition to Donna Walker, is there anyone else we can praise?
Or..........since the blog is BS, can any positive comments be posted?
Now, Jane, don't get jealous and start making snide comments since someone at the Ed. Center got a compliment.
ReplyDeleteWhatever salary Donna Walker is paid is not enough especially in light of Willie Giles' $150K per year.
ReplyDeleteShe appears to be the only Ed Center person who truly has a grasp of the 'meat and potatoes' of instruction and of good educational practices.
She's a real go-to type person who answers emails promptly, gives straight-forward answers to questions, and is knowledgeable about all curriculum matters. How those other posers continue to draw large paychecks is beyond the scope of my understanding.
Theresa Morris, head of secondary mathematics, is also doing a fantastic job!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the comment about Theresa Morris and her group.
ReplyDeleteThey all ready publish the teachers salaries, you just google the IPS salary schedule, and then use the state teacher license look-up to figure the degree and years of experience and you can figure any teachers salary. The administrative salaries are a lot harder to figure, you have to figure it out from the budget and some first hand knowledge of who is in what position and exactly what their title is, and even then it is difficult.
ReplyDeleteTeacher salaries are not an issue because we're all on a salary scale and paid by years of service and levels of education.
ReplyDeleteThe issue lies with the administrators' salaries. Also, the Ed Center clerical staff which has layer upon layer of administrative this and administrative that.
Those are the salaries we'd really like to see released.
While Sue Becker and the science crew aren't at the Ed Center, they also deserve applause.
ReplyDeleteThe science gap analysis makes it a breeze to do lesson plans.
When will social studies catch up?
Also, add Kathy Jones to Teresa Morris. Look at the elementary math scores!
I want a title.
ReplyDeleteThat does come with a huge salary, right?
With the current leadership in the social studies area, there will be no catching up. It is headed up by a person who has been bounced from job to job in IPS and not done any of them well.
ReplyDeletePublishing the salaries of all IPS employees would be a freaking blessing. Teacher(s) being (relatively) richly rewarded for a competent job done in the school, NO TROUBLE AT ALL. But, let the light in and scare those doggone parasitic cockroaches that do so little and make the big dollars. Great, great!!
ReplyDeleteBTW Blogmaster any way to get a spellcheck deal on this?
Re: Social Studies leadership
ReplyDeleteDistrict-wide the Social Studies Benchmark 1 scores were the lowest of the core content areas across the district. In fact, they were static from last year. No growth to speak of; no leadership I suspect. Math and ELA both showed healthy gains -- thanks to Morris and Walker for providing leadership to those who deliver the instruction -- the classroom teachers!
Social studies has been a joke for the past three years. Just try teaching grade 6 world history with a geography book.
ReplyDeleteThrilled at getting the new adoption, I was dismayed and disappointed. If you get a chance, wander into a fifth or sixth grade room and ask to see the SS text. Neither text possesses a decent United States map that details semi-important items like state capitals or major cities, or a world map with similar information. God bless Teachers' Treasures, which provided great world maps. Yes, they're in Spanish, but that benefits both my English and Latino students.
I know I've killed half a forest and emptied three laser printer cartridges searching the Internet for resources. While my students should know about dreadful events such as the Black Plague, other events shaped our world.
If the SS leadership is so poor, what happens when SS becomes part of our AYP?
Oh please. The English Department is to busy using Springboard and coloring pictures. They have people like Karen Oliver trying to tell the teachers what to do when she only taught one semester of English in her entire life. Now she is out as the pimp for Springboard. I guess her success as the year book editor and her major issue of "Baby Mamma and Grill" put on the path to downtown.
ReplyDeleteI guess scores over 5 or 6 question is a high achievement for IPS students and teachers.
ReplyDeleteThe District pays ten dollars for each Springboard book. That is a lot of money for a work book that is suppose to be the curriculum. However, they use a real textbook for the benchmark test. What a joke. I would not use that Springboard junk to teach my children, but they believe that the poor and minorities can only draw pictures or read one main novel a year.
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